<p>hate to jump on the chances bandwagon, but i’ve gotta.</p>
<p>i visited columbia, and got to speak with an admissions officer who litterally friggin interviewed me – i handled it pretty well.</p>
<p>i wanna apply to SEAS as a Biomed Eng.
am currently coducting research in neurobiology at UT austin, as well as volunteering in ER at seton med center.</p>
<p>Age: 16 at time of application(will that do anything??)
GPA: 3.6 unweighted
5.0/6.0 weighted
bad frosh and soph yrs, tailing it in junior
SAT: 2200(predicted?)
Recs: I think I’ll have some daamn good recs.
AP: 7 this year and 3 last year, 6 or 7 more in senior year
Heading a fundraiser to raise 10K for a village school in India
JV Tennis team captain
100 hours of research since Dec(started in Dec) in neurobio dept at UT austin
140-150 hours of volunteer since end of summer at Seton ER</p>
<p>what are my chances?!?!?!?!?
any suggestions?</p>
<p>…and a sense of how competitive your school is, and how you compare to your class and peer group, and how tough the curriculum you took is.</p>
<p>You may also greatly benefit from taking a year off before starting college. Most of the people who showed up on campus at age 17 were completely unprepared for it and became screw-ups in one way or another… none did well their freshman year. On the other hand, most of the people I knew who took a year off and entered at age 19 (myself among them) did really well freshman year because they really wanted to be there and work in an academic setting, having had a breath of air. Consider it.</p>